New Look Nautilus Lands in Ubuntu 12.10

The changes, which include a rejigged toolbar; new sidebar icons; and re-placed app menu, come directly from ‘upstream’ GNOME development.

GNOME developers have stripped back the file-manager interface to make it ‘more like a GNOME 3 app’.

Unfortunately for those testing Ubuntu 12.10 already, these changes are not without their drawbacks.

For one, Nautilus looks awful under Ubuntu’s default theme.

The good news is that this ‘strange look’ isn’t permanent. What you see above is simply the result of Ubuntu’s default theme (currently Ambiance) not yet boasting Nautilus theming support, something that will be addressed in updates over the coming weeks.

To help you better judge the changes here is the ‘new’ Nautilus under Adwaita:

Other Changes

The changes present in the update are, to be fair, pretty huge. Alongside a revamped toolbar come the following: